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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£1.2M
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Spending
£1.3M
Public benefits
Purpose 1. To prevent the relief of poverty. The direct benefit which flows from this purpose is the relief of poverty among care experienced children and young people living in Northern Ireland and their families who suffer the negative impact of poverty or may experience poverty, through support to children in care and care leavers to take part
in decisions affecting their lives, by supporting their participation in care planning process. Purpose 2. To advance education for care experienced children and young people by providing life changing skills and the provision of long-term mentoring for children and care leavers to support their education, personal development, health and well-being. To educate the public and those persons concerned with the welfare of children in care, including voluntary agencies and social workers in local authority, social services departments and agencies with a view to raising the standard of their work for benefit of children in care and care leavers. The direct benefit of this is that care experienced children and young people are better educated in their rights and supported to take part in decisions affecting their lives which gives them opportunities for wider social exchange and personal development. The benefits are demonstrated through service user feed-back and programme evaluations, by considering their views and to ensure positive changes in policy and practice. The purpose does not lead to harm. The beneficiaries are care experienced children and young people, their families. The private benefit flowing from this is that gained by young person who has been referred to our services. Purpose 3. The relief of children and young people in need. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include increased physical and emotional health through provision of one to one support and personal development group work programmes, provision of independent advocacy support for children in care and care leavers. The benefits are demonstrated through service user feed-back and by the review public attitudes to care experienced children and young people and care leavers. This is done through the maintenance of records and the collection of qualitative and quantitative statistics and programme evaluations. The purpose does not lead to harm. The benefit is for children in care and care leavers living in Northern Ireland who have or may experience need. Purpose 4. The advancement of human rights of care experienced children and young people. The direct benefit which flows from this purpose is to assist children in care and care leavers to find out more about their rights to which they are entitled and support them to access services through the provision of independent advocacy support for children and care leavers. This support relieves the negative effects of the denial of children and young people’s rights, and increases awareness of children and young people’s rights and better enforcement of children’s rights. The benefits are demonstrated through service user feed-back from children and young people their families. This is done through the maintenance of records and the collection of qualitative and quantitative statistics and programme evaluations, this is also demonstrated by considering qualitative and quantitative research. The purpose does not lead to harm. The beneficiaries for this purpose are care experienced children and young people living in Northern Ireland.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Promotes the physical and psychological health and relieve the distress and disturbance of children in care and to provide or assist in providing facilities and/or services of every kind capable of use by children and young people in care (or who have past experience in their upbringing of being in care) with a view in particular to providing a
greater range of facilities for such children and young people and to give them opportunities for wider social exchange and personal development.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Education/training
- Human rights/equality
- Research/evaluation
- Youth development
